A more helpful person has already filed the lib issue and it's been fixed in the meantime.

I would say an equally helpful person. ;-)

(I'm Eric. "Sue D. Nymme" is my main online alias)

Hey! That's great. You really got me there. I'll leave my original post uncorrected to get my deserved embarrassment.

What remains, though, is that I am not entirely happy with the tone of your post. If I didn't know who it's coming from, I'd put it down as whining and unproductive. The situation is not nearly as dire as you make it. Steffen

Well, I will own up to that. I was very frustrated. Perl does so many things so well that I get impatient when it doesn't do something seemingly ordinary by itself for me by magic. ;-)

I really liked Cava Packager; I was surprised and disappointed that it didn't bundle things as neatly as I thought it should have. pp looked pretty good, and lots of people rave about PAR; I was frustrated by what I thought was a fairly big stumbling block.

Perhaps what I really needed was to step back and look at the problem differently—and a lot of the posts in this thread suggest different approaches that I will certainly try.

+1 for the Perl community, anyhow.